Some dingbat that occasionally builds neat stuff without breaking others. The person running this public-but-not-promoted instance because reasons.
I was actually hoping to see that as a defense. The principal thing that copy enforcement corps always cite is ‘we downloaded a copy from their IP, thus they made a copy and distributed the work’.
If this works as a defense here then in effect they make direct download portals legal for the users at least.
Should clarify that you mean the Trump admin, otherwise people might get the wrong idea.
I think I get what you mean, but validating the origin of a particular piece wouldn’t do much for verifying the content. So such of the misinfo that’s put out is taking some small snip of a broader story and reframing it in a way that makes the situation out differently.
Their news, or world news, I forget exactly, has been the first long time subscribed comm I finally ditched. Anything posted there with a relation to the USA is going to inevitably devolve into ‘western imperialism’, ‘dems evil’, ‘china supreme’ etc. With any dissenting commentary being at best piled on to say how wrong it is, and just as likely deleted.
No, if we where lucky it’d be immediately courtesy of a meteor or something that couldn’t be reasonably viewed as a conspiracy to make him a martyr.
On schedule will be the result of a perpetual fight to keep him and his monkeys in check.
Would seem so, sent me a DM to day follow me on Friendica and PeerTube. Day old account, maybe trying to do the same thing Facebook did with the AI profiles.
I’ve read of a couple small places. Was a coffee shop in the cities around here where they guy running it for 20+ years wanted to get out and the staff decided that rather than a new owner they would raise funds to buy it. Sort of run like a direct democracy with some rules based on seniority and such.
Richter scale confirmed
You expect that a horde of doctors is going to invade China to force an investigation?
Like most anything P2P scale, consistency, and adoption are huge factors.
Don’t know about social media, but sites exist in systems like this: https://zeronet.io/
And his number 1 fan was giving Nazi salutes at his inauguration. Just another day in the great American experiment…
Here’s the funny thing with that. We watched things like Bill Nye and Captain Planet as kids. We’ve been aware of the evidence of science and the needs to change our society since a very young age. For many years we where told ‘use plastic so they don’t cut down trees’ only to realize later that was wrong. All through it we where telling the parent and the grandparents that things needed to change and the future wasn’t looking great.
Not one fuck was given.
So when it came time to be the parents and the mundane middle life drones many simply said hold onto what scraps you can and hope for the future, but in the meantime I just want to sit down for a bit. It’s draining as hell to spend decades of your life being ignored, it’s not a wonder we get called the forgotten generation.
We’re just chilling watching the show…
I sit at the tail end of it, or as I’ve seen it described ‘xenials’, wishing things would start to make sense again one day.
A big part of it is Americans at large object to any kind of coercive governance however it manifests. I can’t in good faith say that nations like China or N Korea that exercise such tight control over the public media and messaging are a net good to their population. Cooperative social goals for universal housing, healthcare, a decent standard of living are good, but we have a huge portion of ‘bootstraps’ minded folks that get in the way. In the meantime we get this piecemeal patchwork that we have that over time has lent itself to rights for minorities of various stripes that eventually get adopted as the norm. Right now we’re sitting at a spot where the pendulum of progress is being pushed hard back right, how to stop that is the tough question.
See I don’t mind a decent conversation with them either. I actually hold a lot of ‘leftist’ views myself. What gets to be troublesome is when people come in with a perspective that what passes for liberal in the US is violently evil. Our system is very flawed, easily viewed by the way the electoral college allows for a person with less of the popular vote to win. However, it’s what exists and without some massive uprising changes are going to be slow at best.
Look at the chaos that came from the George Floyd murder. That went on for a few months and little of major note changed. Or the occupy Wall Street that just kind of petered out to nothing. The media moves on to the next shiny thing and people lose interest. The most recent with the killing of a CEO was just a couple weeks ago and you can already feel the fervor for it slowing down.
People have good reason to want changes, and so many times ‘liberal’ and ‘leftist’ people have similar stated goals. It often feels that the liberals are being fought from both sides, one actively against them in principal and the other yelling for trying to work with the system as it exists.
You can follow tags for a while in Mastodon, that way you don’t have to follow a specific person but more a topic.
I’d expect if there was an equivalent of ‘gab’ or ‘truth social’ they would be defederated too. I can understand an action like that because people join these places specifically because it’s an echo chamber fitting their viewpoints and they’re allowed and even encouraged to be hostile to outsiders.
With the way the fedi is set up you can certainly set up multiple accounts, and I’m sure there are more than a couple from those instances cut off that create accounts elsewhere to have those conversations. The difference being that they’re expected to behave in a civil fashion rather than just screaming at others.
On my single-user instance I haven’t defederated anyone and only blocked a handful of outright spam/troll accounts and a couple who seem to have a single life purpose to push an agenda.
Idaho gonna hate Trump now for being a tater immigrater.